• Concretely addresses what happens when new teachers try to enact inquiry-based and dialogical pedagogy within standardized schools • Provides realistic access and insight into the professional lives of novice teachers in ways that invite preservice and other novice teachers to reflect on the complexities of classroom engagement • Unpacks tension between the standardization of education and the advocates for pedagogy that supports individual inquiries and dialogues within literacy classrooms • Demonstrates methods for prospective and novice ELA and English teachers to “wobble,” or enact inquiry-based or dialogic pedagogy in the context of structured and inflexible schooling systems.

We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society-past, present, and future. In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about race within the context of history, geography, government, economics, and the behavioral sciences. Race Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies addresses the space between the theoretical and the practical and provides teachers and teacher educators with concrete lesson ideas for how to engage learners with social studies content and race. Oftentimes, social studies teachers do not teach about race because of several factors: teacher fear, personal notions of colorblindness, and attachment to multicultural narratives that stress assimilation. This volume will begin to help teachers and teacher educators start the conversation around realistic and practical race pedagogy. The chapters included in this volume are written by prominent social studies scholars and classroom teachers. This work is unique in that it represents an attempt to use Critical Race Theory and inquiry pedagogy (Inquiry Design Model) to teach about race in the social science disciplines.

We hold that the mission of social studies is not attainable, without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society-past, present, and future. In a follow up to the book, Doing Race in Social Studies (2015), this new volume addresses practical considerations of teaching about race within the context of history, geography, government, economics, and the behavioral sciences. Race Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies addresses the space between the theoretical and the practical and provides teachers and teacher educators with concrete lesson ideas for how to engage learners with social studies content and race. Oftentimes, social studies teachers do not teach about race because of several factors: teacher fear, personal notions of colorblindness, and attachment to multicultural narratives that stress assimilation. This volume will begin to help teachers and teacher educators start the conversation around realistic and practical race pedagogy. The chapters included in this volume are written by prominent social studies scholars and classroom teachers. This work is unique in that it represents an attempt to use Critical Race Theory and inquiry pedagogy (Inquiry Design Model) to teach about race in the social science disciplines.

* Concretely addresses what happens when new teachers try to enact inquiry-based and dialogical pedagogy within standardized schools * Provides realistic access and insight into the professional lives of novice teachers in ways that invite preservice and other novice teachers to reflect on the complexities of classroom engagement * Unpacks tension between the standardization of education and the advocates for pedagogy that supports individual inquiries and dialogues within literacy classrooms * Demonstrates methods for prospective and novice ELA and English teachers to "wobble," or enact inquiry-based or dialogic pedagogy in the context of structured and inflexible schooling systems.